Helen Henry “was dogged and unstoppable” when it came to working for peace and the rights of minorities, said a longtime friend, Val Phillips of Gardner.

Henry, who was 89 when she died in Boulder on Sept. 26, worked until she was in her 80s for the causes, even landing on the “spy files” list in Denver.

A product of a Quaker high school, “Helen was bent that way” in her efforts to work for minorities, said her ex-husband, the Rev. Richard Henry of Seattle. “She was the epitome of not just talking but acting” on the injustices she saw, he said.

Phillips, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee (a Quaker organization), met Henry through AFSC work and said Henry “never wasted time complaining.” Rather she acted, whether it was marching for peace, siding with American Indian causes or helping settle Vietnam refugees.

She was known for rounding up people to send faxes to public officials — so many one time that the official’s fax machine just stopped.

“She had integrity in speech and action,” Phillips said. “The truth didn’t change for her depending on the circumstances. She had respect for all people, and they respected her.”

“She was a natural ally of the less powerful and of minority cultures that were being crushed by the dominant cultures,” said her son Seth Henry of Longmont.

Helen Henry was still marching with the American Indian Coalition in her early 80s, Seth Henry said. “As if a woman at that age who was 5-foot-3 and 100 pounds could be dangerous,” he said.

“She taught me to respect all people, to know that all people have some wisdom worth paying attention to,” he said. “She viscerally felt connected to all people.”

Helen Pickering Bradley was born Aug. 27, 1920, in Pickering House in Salem, Mass.

She attended a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania and studied anthropology at Harvard and Columbia universities. She graduated from Radcliffe and then taught at a Navajo school in Ramah, N.M.

She married the Rev. Richard Henry in 1946 and lived in New York and Knoxville, Tenn., before he took over the pastorate at First Unitarian Church in Capitol Hill, where he served from 1957 until 1977.

They later divorced.

In addition to her son Seth, she is survived by another son, Evan Henry of Bangor, Maine, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and her brother, Ted Bradley of Potomac, Md.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.